Starlight on the Western Seas

memento mori & memento vivere, tolkien, a general yearning for the sea. 30something. terror sideblog @muchtodoonterror

[goodsirs]

Widow's Bay 1.01 "Welcome to Widow's Bay"

[dyk-this-musical-song]

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Do you know this Musical Song? #288

I know the song and the musical

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[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

English/American artist, writer, and illustrator Clare Leighton (1898-1989) was a frequent visitor to Cape Cod in all seasons during her lifetime, and in 1954 she produced these wood engravings to express her fondness for this part of the American experience. She writes:

Because I love this particular earth and sea I have tried to show the basic, enduring life of Cape Cod. Too many of us come here only during the months of summer, when the scene is cluttered with vacationists, and the true spirit of the land is forced into hiding. . . . But fully to love Cape Cod, we must live the loneliness of the winter, and be fearless against the assault of a northeaster. . . . Only then can we enjoy to the full those incomparable days of sun and sea that come in their due season. But, . . . of greater value is the life of the workers upon the land and sea. . . . If you should know and love Cape Cod you must be aware of the fishermen and their families.

Such is evident in these engravings, reproduced in Clare Leighton’s Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023. The book was edited with an introduction by Leighton’s devoted nephew, David Leighton (1931-2022), who sadly did not live to see its publication.

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[galaxywarp]

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

[100493503004422]

the interest switching conveyor belt of hyperfixation makes me feel out of control of my life and my future but for some reason other people with adhd and my former adhd-specific therapist seem to believe it's just fine. makes me feel crazy when something I was obsessed with and going to mold my life around is suddenly uninteresting to me, and that it happens so often and that there isn't anything I can do to stop it. it fills me with a sense of dread whenever I know I am in the throes of a new interest bc I know it will end, even if it doesn't feel like it will bc it always feels like forever. but I've had at least a hundred "life-changing" hobbies and I know the disinterest is coming. borrowed nostalgia for the present overwhelms me

[random-brushstrokes]

Maria Likarz - Wiener Werkstätte Postcard 557 (1911)

[in-a-faradaze]

thinking about her (lost, 2004-2010)

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[overflowchute]

THE CRICKET THAT LIVES EXCLUSIVELY ON NEW LAVA FIELDS AND IMMEDIATELY LEAVES THE MOMENT ANY PLANTS SHOW UP. NO ONE HAS EVER SCAVENGED THIS HARD BEFORE. IT'S A LIFESTYLE

[anyboli]

This page from one of my history books looks like a lesbian utopia.

Source: Reclaiming Lost Ground by Neale McGoldrick & Margaret Crocco

[anyboli]

Very similar vibes - this 1899 illustration from Puck of butchy (for the time) lesbians looking like the coolest, hottest women to ever walk the earth

[hiddenwwi]

Carving of ancient warriors carved at the entrance to a WWI underground city

[lacnunga]

Something something something about tall ships that were drawn contemporaneously by someone from another ship being depicted without visible people on board. The artist knew there were people on there, but theyre not important because the tall ship is a Creature in itself, the little people who sail it are consumed by the Creature are the Creature are nothing to the Creature

[thatsbelievable]

[stlamb]

agnes richter (1844–1918) was a victorian-era seamstress who is remembered for an embroidered jacket she made while being held in heidelberg psychiatric hospital. one part reads, "I plunge headlong into disaster."

[the1920sinpictures]

1921 Ad for a phonograph and lamp (!) combination from Burns Pollock Electric Manufacturing Company. From Pinterest.

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[hangsawoman]

shirley jackson’s self portrait, 1942